For theirmother has played the prostitute. She who conceivedthem has doneshamefully; for she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'

She willfollowafter her lovers, but she won'tovertakethem; and she willseekthem, but won'tfindthem. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my firsthusband; for then was it betterwith me than now.'

In that day I willmake a covenant for themwith the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creepingthings of the ground. I willbreak the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and willmakethem lie downsafely.